WinForms Controls – Displaying a vertical tab

It’s been several years since my last WinForms programming experience – I’m a ASP.NET maniac since 2002/2003 – but this year started with an unexpected challenge: build a Visual Studio 2008 Integration Package (VSIP) with an advanced Editor for some in-house metadata xml structure.

If you already did some work related to VSIP is no surprise that I was forced to embrace the long ago forgotten Winforms controls specificities.

Maybe I simply forgot or never noticed before, but the TabControl when operating in vertical mode – either Left or Right – display an amazing poor user experience and in most cases text are not showed.